Online Marketers to Stamp out Spam?

CodeHog writes "A group of online marketers want to get rid of spam and are proposing a registry base system for transmitting email. They are calling the project Lumos. Computer World has an aritcle on it Online marketers offer new antispam initiative . Doesn't it seem like these are the same businesses that profit from spam? Even better, this is being proposed by ESPC. The member list doesn't look too anti-spam to me." The obvious issue of course is that most spammers won't follow the rules anyway. My spam is up 20% over the 1st quarter of 2003! Yay!

Yes, let's hand email over to marketers

[Anonymous Coward]

And lets also hand over civil rights to the Klan.

Spam up 20%

[RollingThunder]

My spam is up 20% over the 1st quarter of 2003!

So how can I get spam futures into my portfolio? Something going up 20% a quarter is just what the stockbroker ordered!

Incredibly intuitive notion

[mao che minh]

Terrific idea. I assert that we should also award the power to draft anti-monopoly legistlation to Microsoft Corporation.

Of course

[7x7]

I will gladly post my email to a public "do not mail" list. I assume the list will be harvested to "remove" me.

Oxymoron

[ad0gg]

Kinda like letting the fox guard the chickens. I have feeling this to weed out porn, and "penis enlargement" emails so the marketing companies don't have worry about their spam getting diluted.

Tracking spam

[Anonymous Coward]

My spam is up 20% over the 1st quarter of 2003!

You track your percentage of spam? And keep historical notes?

WOW! Get a life..
Hrmm...how long can you live without touching a keyboard? Take a deep breath, pry yourself away from the cheap fake leather chair, and go outside. You can do it!

Someone needs to create a support group for people like this...Kinda of like Alcoholics Anonymous.

Meetings would have to take place through Instant Messenger/IRC until you can pry them away from the computer.

Re:web log spam

[Mr. Sketch]

I am using a script that displays the recent referrers and it is currently half full of spam.

Hmm, now it seems to be half full of slashdot.org referrers.

whats wrong with spam??

[Anonymous Coward]

i am debt free
i got 3 more inches
i get viagra without prescription
girls got a crush on me
i got free stuff

Porcus Percoquere Ad Nauseam

[jazman]

Hmm, Guild of Spammers...sounds like something Terry Pratchett might have thought up for the next installment of Ankh-Morpork.

(Couldn't find "spam" in my Latatian dictionary, which also doesn't have a section on how to convert the infinitive to past tense, so "to cook pig" will have to do.)

ESPC are spammers

[gorbachev]

"The member list doesn't look too anti-spam to me."

That's damn right. It's the Who's Who of spam-for-hire operations. Every single one of them spams. It's just that they claim their spam is not spam.

Proletariat of the world, unite to kill spammers. Remember to shoot the knees first, so that they can't run away while you slowly torture them to death.

Gulp

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I'll have to figure out somewhere else to get my Blue Pills. I guess I've have to make an embarrassing trip to the doctor's office. Dang ;)

Sure fire way of stopping spam

[dfn5]

[wildstar] # sh /etc/init.d/sendmail stop

Turn $25 into $500,000 in 6 months

[DrSkwid]

Hello,
You may have seen this business before and
ignored it. I know I did - many times! However,
please take a few moments to read this letter.
I was amazed when the profit potential of this
business finally sunk in... and it works!

With easy-to-use e-mail tools and opt-in e-mail,
success in this business is now fast, easy and
well within the capabilities of ordinary people
who know little about internet marketing. And the
earnings potential is truly staggering!

Send me $25 and I'll send you the tools.

Re:Not all the mail YOU don't want is spam...

[ArmorFiend]

the advertisers have a well-defined and mature methodology of knowing where and how to promote their products on TV and they don't have to worry about their audience getting annoyed by ads for things that they don't want.

What TV are you watching? That doesn't sound so bad.

When I was a kid watching cartoons I *swore* never to spend a penny at Smith's furniture because they totally over-advertised during Battle of the Planets. And I'm sticking to it. Ditto for snuggle fabric softener, etc.

Now I'm bombarded by car ads. I think driving is immoral. I have no car and won't buy one untill I'm too old to bike. Yet 30% of tv commercials are car ads, and most of them are really REALLY inane and stupid.

When we have real pervasive directed advertising, like some sponsored links on search engines, will be a great day. I would even go so far to say that if target audiences could "rate" ads they're subjected to, and dumb or irrelevant ads cost the advertisers more, and cool, funny or apropos ads cost the advertisers less (and hence they actually make a profit).

Re:Like this is going to save the world

[Moses Lawn]

"What are you doing Dave? How about a lower mortgage rate, Dave?"

Dave, I've been meaning to talk to you. I don't think you are pleasing her as much as you could. If you would increase your penis size, Dave, I believe this girl would like to meet you. Here is a video...

Re:ESPC

[myov]

The ESPC website also has a box where you can add your email address and receive "information" from them about the ESPC itself, which I would *ahem* not recomend. ;-)

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webmaster@doubl eclick.com
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(see http://www.networkadvertising.org/espc/members.asp )